Mouse Escapades

I decided after seeing one whiz across my floors this morning that I'd watch and find out where it was going (nesting). I sat on the couch, really still, with a view of my dining room and refrigerator for about a half hour this morning. There I sat, at 3:00 a.m., watching for mice.

I watched the mouse come out from my refrigerator, search under my dining room table, and grab a yellow Trix cereal piece on the floor (I'm sure it was thanking my 3yo for dropping it for it). It took it behind my fridge. I heard it doing whatever mice do under my fridge for a couple minutes before coming out again to hunt for food. It took off again under the fridge where I heard it doing its thing. I was a little sad to think that I'd have to commit mouse murder because it was little and cute. I sat quietly waiting to see if it came back out when another one (yes, another one) ran through the living room and into my kitchen to hook up with the mouse already under my fridge.

OK, that makes two of them. My sadness disappeared when I realized that if these are male and female mice, we'd soon have babies and be over-run with mice. I moved the trap over by the fridge and added a few Trix cereal pieces to it. *evil grin* I also made plans to go out tomorrow and pick up some hamster treats to bait them with since cheese and peanut butter don't work. I heard them once more, sounded like they were under my cabinets, before going back to bed.

This morning, hubby and I pulled the fridge out but couldn't see anything. I had the broom waiting, hoping I'd be able to smack one with it but no deal.

A few minutes ago, I heard some bumping and a squeal. I'm not sure if the mice got into a little tussle together or if one of them got caught in the trap. Since I can't look, it'll have to sit there until my husband gets up to take care of it. It's not like it's going anywhere if it did...ever again. Gross.

I think they're going around my fridge and dishwasher, through the lower cabinets where the dishwasher hoses are snaked to my sink pipes and making a home underneath my sink base cabinet (where I have a trap waiting). I didn't think about this when my new cabinets were put in. Ewww. Do they realize how much these cabinets cost us? I think that's where I heard the squealing noise so hopefully, one of the mice bit the dust. We'll see in a couple hours 'cause I'm sure as hell not opening that cabinet to look.

They're lucky we don't catch them and hang them over our snake's cage and let Willy do his thing. Willy loves mice.